College of Science - Oregon State on Instagram: "Today, on February 7th, in 1863, English chemist John Newlands published one of the first versions of the periodic table using the Law of Octaves. The Law of Octaves arranged elements by increasing atomic mass, and that their chemical properties repeat every eight elements similar to musical octaves. In his table there were 56 known elements that were sorted into 8 groups. Today, the periodic table contains 118 elements across 18 groups, but Newla